

Build It. They'll Come.
Candid interviews with successful Self-starters. On Build It. They'll Come, you'll hear from some amazing Australian entrepreneurs who bet big to build great businesses. Journalist Helen Dalley interviews business innovators and visionaries on how they turned their lightbulb idea into a viable, sustainable enterprise. This podcast is about the human face behind taking a simple idea and turning it into a business or movement. It's the beating heart behind what it takes to build an empire, from concept to execution, and how they actually achieve it. Fuelled by blind faith and hard slog, how they transform their dream idea into concrete reality.
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Part 2, how Booktopia co-founder Tony Nash’s unorthodox path through school, university & early business life, contributed to help him create & build his Aussie e-commerce book-selling empire; & how a medical diagnosis gave him clarity

How Booktopia cofounder Tony Nash believed he could compete against massive Amazon in online book-selling, and win, by taking one step at a time; & how stocking a Seinfeld best-seller proved a game-changer

Part 2, how going public for Aconex was not all it was cracked up to be: Leigh Jasper’s home truths from listed co trenches; & why he didn’t want to sell out, even for an amazing $1.6 Billion!

How Aconex cofounder Leigh Jasper jumped from pumping petrol as a kid, to building an online document-sharing platform that revolutionised construction project management worldwide & became an ASX 200 public company, with $200mill revenue

How The Smith Family ceo & entrepreneur Dr Lisa O’Brien thought outside the box to transform that august charity into a more resourceful, resilient & robust support for disadvantaged Aussie children & youth, well into the future

Part 2, how Kanopy’s Olivia Humphrey grabbed massive US Public Library market for her film streaming service; how she battled unscrupulous competitors yet ultimately prevailed, serving over 5000 libraries, then selling Kanopy for a 9-figure sum!

Entrepreneur Olivia Humphrey on building Kanopy from nothing 13yrs ago, into a global empire: how she created a small DVD business, & transformed it into a massive independent film streaming service, accessible with just a library card swipe.

Part 2, how Airtasker co-founder Tim Fung managed rapid scale-up; how COVID19 keenly re-shaped Airtasker’s successful trajectory; & why it’s important to listen to others, genuinely challenge yourself & stay open to advice

Airtasker co-founder Tim Fung, on how he turned working for free in his early career, into an invaluable lesson that helped when launching digital marketplace Airtasker, now one of Australia’s favourite e-commerce sites with 950,000 customers

Part 2, how healthcare entrepreneur Cathie Reid went for ambitious scale-up into cancer care; how she dealt with a $1Billion valuation & massive wealth; & how philanthropy & love of cricket now fit into her life.

Healthcare entrepreneur Cathie Reid on getting out of Dodge (or in her case, out of country Victoria!); & how divorce upended her life plans, but opened her up to seize opportunities & build an international pharmacy empire

Part 2, How Adore Beauty’s Kate Morris stayed afloat through the struggle years, to then manage rapid growth & scale-up: plus lessons from selling, then buying back, a stake in Adore Beauty to Woolworths

Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris on swapping being a salesgirl behind the beauty counter at Myer department store, into creating an online store selling makeup & skincare brands, that after years of hard slog she built into a thriving empire.

How Cerebral Palsy’s Ceo Rob White & newborn specialist Prof Nadia Badawi inspired global collaboration to reduce both incidence & severity of CP in Aust, by building a startup Research Foundation, attracting best medical researchers.

How Ceo Rob White & medico Professor Nadia Badawi created a startup Research Foundation from scratch 15 yrs ago, & built it into a global leader finding better prevention & treatments for those with cerebral palsy.

Mayfield Garden creator & entrepreneur Garrick Hawkins on how boyhood farm holidays ignited his passion for the land & his vision to build a country garden, that’s transformed over decades into 1 of Southern Hemisphere’s largest privately-owned gardens

Management Consultant & strategist Ralph Evans on turning entrepreneur! The boutique advice firm he co-founded, Pappas Carter Evans & Koop was so successful, global giant Boston Consulting Group (BCG) came knocking & bought the company!

RedBalloon founder Naomi Simson on how she aims to achieve their “big, hairy, audacious goal” – to serve an experience to a customer, somewhere in the world, every second, by 2030! Plus, overcoming tough times!

RedBalloon founder Naomi Simson on how she reinvented her marketing career, after having children, by backing herself- creating a gifting website that delivered many more consumers to small businesses who otherwise would never have found those new customers!
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